Indentation across size scales and disciplines: Recent developments in experimentation and modeling

A Gouldstone, N Chollacoop, M Dao, J Li, AM Minor… - Acta Materialia, 2007 - Elsevier
Indentation is a remarkably flexible mechanical test due to its relative experimental
simplicity. Coupled with advances in instrument development, ease of implementation has …

Influence of microstructure on the cutting behaviour of silicon

S Goel, A Kovalchenko, A Stukowski, G Cross - Acta Materialia, 2016 - Elsevier
We use molecular dynamics simulation to study the mechanisms of plasticity during cutting
of monocrystalline and polycrystalline silicon. Three scenarios are considered:(i) cutting a …

Nanoindentation of polysilicon and single crystal silicon: Molecular dynamics simulation and experimental validation

S Goel, NH Faisal, X Luo, J Yan… - Journal of physics D …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper presents novel advances in the deformation behaviour of polycrystalline and
single crystal silicon using molecular dynamics (MD) simulation and validation of the same …

Atomistic simulation of structural phase transformations in monocrystalline silicon induced by nanoindentation

DE Kim, SI Oh - Nanotechnology, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
Structural phase transformations of silicon during nanoindentation were investigated in
detail at the atomic level. The molecular dynamics simulations of nanoindentation on the …

Nanoindentation induced deformation and pop-in events in a silicon crystal: molecular dynamics simulation and experiment

S Jiapeng, L Cheng, J Han, A Ma, L Fang - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Silicon has such versatile characteristics that the mechanical behavior and deformation
mechanism under contact load are still unclear and hence are interesting and challenging …

Molecular dynamics investigations of mechanical behaviours in monocrystalline silicon due to nanoindentation at cryogenic temperatures and room temperature

X Du, H Zhao, L Zhang, Y Yang, H Xu, H Fu, L Li - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Molecular dynamics simulations of nanoindentation tests on monocrystalline silicon (010)
surface were conducted to investigate the mechanical properties and deformation …

Molecular dynamics simulation on cutting mechanism in the hybrid machining process of single-crystal silicon

C Liu, W He, J Chu, J Zhang, X Chen, J Xiao… - Nanoscale Research …, 2021 - Springer
In this paper, molecular dynamics simulations are carried out to investigate the cutting
mechanism during the hybrid machining process combined the thermal and vibration …

A contact mechanics model for quasi‐continua

RA Sauer, S Li - International journal for numerical methods in …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
A computational multiscale contact mechanics model is proposed to describe the interaction
between deformable solids based on the interaction of individual atoms or molecules …

XPS analysis of the groove wearing marks on flank face of diamond tool in nanometric cutting of silicon wafer

WJ Zong, T Sun, D Li, K Cheng, YC Liang - International Journal of Machine …, 2008 - Elsevier
In nanometric cutting of single-crystal silicon wafers with a diamond tool, minimizing the tool
wear is of great significance in order to achieve the satisfied surface quality and dimensional …

Molecular dynamics simulation of AlN thin films under nanoindentation

H Xiang, H Li, T Fu, Y Zhao, C Huang, G Zhang… - Ceramics …, 2017 - Elsevier
A large-scale molecular dynamics (MD) simulation of nanoindentation was performed to
study the structural deformation on wurtzite aluminum nitride (B4-AlN). The nanoindentation …